COLUMN: How to buy, cook better shrimp in landlocked Tennessee

11:57 AM,
Sep. 16, 2013

Shrimp tacos

Written by

Diane Welker

When it comes to seafood, it's obviously best purchased from a boat at the end of the day, taken back to your beachfront house and cooked simply. Since that happens rarely for the land-locked who aren't willing to pony up the cost of a rental, there are some secrets to enjoying the ocean's bounty, pulled from the freezer case.

One of the best frozen seafood purchases you can make is frozen shrimp. I never buy thawed shrimp from the fish counter, because I don't know when they were put out, and their shelf life is pretty much NOW.

Frozen shrimp will retain its quality for several weeks, and you can ...